Well, it looks like country star Jason Aldean is a far bigger deal than any us imagined. The Friday concert at Rupp Arena by the Georgia hitmaker is sold out.

Technically, there were approximately 90 single seats still available as of this morning through TicketMaster, but they will disappear quickly. By the time those tickets are sold, attendance figures for Friday’s performance will top the 18,000 mark.

That will give Aldean’s show the highest turnout of any Rupp concert since a 2005 Kenny Chesney date drew 19,200. Such figures more than double the attendance of January’s Rascal Flatts performance. As an FYI, the Flatts boys had a top ticket price that came perilously close to $100. Aldean’s tickets top out, minus fees, at $56.25.

Mr. Aldean himself will chat with us later this week in The Musical Box. And for those lucky 19,000 with tickets, Friday’s show will start at 7:30 p.m. Eric Church and the JaneDear girls will open.

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I am a native Kentuckian and freelance journalist who has been writing about contemporary music for the Lexington Herald-Leader since 1980. I have not a lick of honest musical talent myself, just a pair of appreciative ears for jazz, folk, blues, bluegrass, Americana, soul, Celtic, Cajun, chamber, worldbeat, nearly every form of rock 'n' roll imaginable and, when pressed, the occasional tango and polka.